Saturday, April 2, 2016

I’m more competent than Pogi - Mark Cojuangco

By Mortz C.
Ortigoza

LINGAYEN –Gubernatorial
aspirant Mark Cojuangco declared recently here that he was more competent than
his rival by belittling his experiences in business and industry.

STUMP. Former Congressman Mark Cojuangco and Calasiao Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay (4th and 5th from left, respectively) listen as a supporterspeaks in a grand rally held at the public plaza of Lingayen, Pangasinan for duo's governorship and vice governorship bids. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

Cojuangco said
his two decades of edged in age against the thirty something years old Espino
is one of his comparative advantages in running the huge province.

“Malaki po ang aking kumpiyansa na sabihin sa inyong lahat
si Mark Cojuangco ay magiging isang mas mahusay na gobernador kaysa kay Pogi! (I
have the confidence to tell you all that Mark Cojuangco would be a better
governor than Pogi!) “he told the tens of
thousands of cheering leaders and supporters who attended his grand rally at
the public plaza here last Monday.

Cojuangco was
with his vice governorship tandem Calasiao Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay and his
ticket in the provincial board.

He cited how
he as a three term congressman made the perennial flooding a thing of the past
in the Fifth District of Pangasinan.

“Sa bayan po
ng Binalonan, sa bayan ng Laoac, sa siyudad ng Urdaneta, sa bayan ng Villasis.
Marami pang lugar na natuldukan na namin ang pagbaha (In the town of Binalonan,
in the town of Laoac, in the city of Urdaneta, in the town of Villasis and many
places where we already solved the problem of flooding)”.

He ended, he said, those herculean tasks with only a limited fund given by the government to
a congressman.

He compared
how a lawmaker with a measly annual seventy million pesos priority development assistance
fund (PDAF) versus the three billion pesos a year budget of Governor Amado T.
Espino, Jr. where the latter should have solved the flooding that haunt yearly
the lives and properties of the almost three million population province.

A congressman,
he explained, has no personnel to do his billing while a governor has thousands
of workers to implement the projects that he wants.

“Kung iyan po
na iyan sa Quinto Distrito ang nagawa ko bilang isang congressman, ano kaya ang kaya kung gawin bilang isang gobernador para sa lahat ng bayan sa ating
probinsiya (If I did those projects in the Fifth District as a congressman, how
much more I could do in the entire province if I am the governor of Pangasinan)”,
he cited to his supporters and most of the congressmen and mayors of the 44
towns and three cities’ province who attended the stump.

He pledged too
to make Pangasinan attractive to investors so her people would have jobs and
better standard of living.

“With jobs
here Pangasinenses no longer need to go outside the province to look for
employment”.

He cited the agriculture
sector as one of the areas he is going to develop.

He deplored
how farmers in the province contented themselves to plant, harvest, and sell
their palay and corn. He said he can put more values on these products by
creating cooperatives and building post harvest facilities where banks can fund
them through loan.